Section: News & Summaries

Ukraine and Russia, through the mediation of the European Union, have not yet agreed on gas supply this winter. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak reported the interim results of trilateral gas negotiations between the EU, Ukraine and Russia, which lasted nearly ten hours and ended in Brussels early on Thursday, Ukrinform’s...

Terrorists and Russian troops continue systematic violation of Minsk agreements terms and keep up shelling ATO forces units. Ukrainian forces maintain active defense while repulsing all attacks and destroying the enemy’s firing points, when it brings no threat for civilians. Within the last day there were no casualties among Ukrainian servicemen,...

The Ukrainian Central Election Commission (CEC) has processed 99% of electronic protocols from precinct election commissions as of 16.35, according to the commission’s website. The People’s Front remains in first place, with 22.17% of the vote. The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko goes second, with 21.81% of the vote. Samopomich is third,...

European Commission Vice-President Gunther Oettinger has said he hopes that today’s tripartite consultations on gas issues between Ukraine, the EU and Russia will be final and that the sides will reach an interim agreement. He said this before bilateral meetings with Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan and...

The Ukrainian side has not signed any agreements with terrorists on the arrangement of a buffer zone in the Donbas conflict zone. The spokesman for the information and analytical center of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), Andriy Lysenko, said this at a briefing on Wednesday, while commenting on rumors about the Ukrainian...

No servicemen have been killed in the area of the anti-terrorist operation in Donbas in the past 24 hours, but one soldier has been injured as a result of terrorist attacks. National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) spokesman Andriy Lysenko said this at a briefing on Wednesday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “No Ukrainian servicemen...

A draft coalition agreement proposed by the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko establishes the schedule for the submission to parliament of a draft law on Ukraine’s state budget for 2015 and its adoption. The document has been published on the bloc’s website solydarnist.org. According to the document, the Cabinet of Ministers should submit the...

People’s Front leader Arseniy Yatseniuk has said he hopes that a coalition in the new Verkhovna Rada and a new government will be formed within 20 days. He said this at a press conference on Wednesday, a Ukrinform correspondent reported. “Over the next 20 days we have to make a final decision. This, of course, depends on the results...

The EU and individual member states have collected EUR 63 million to provide financial and humanitarian aid to Ukrainian citizens temporarily displaced from the occupied territories and the area of the anti-terrorist operation, as well as to rebuild infrastructure in Donbas, Ukraine’s Mission to the EU has told a Ukrinform correspondent....

The Bloc of Petro Poroshenko offers a draft coalition agreement to other democratic forces that entered parliament. The text of the agreement has been posted on the website of the bloc. The document, which includes 48 pages, was proposed to other democratic forces for discussion. The draft agreement specifies the obligations of coalition members...